The book contains eight stories dedicated to life in Moscow and the USSR in the seventies of the twentieth century. These are my memories of childhood, parents, friends and school. About how children lived in that time, which sank forever. In this book, I tried to convey my childhood sensations and perception of those years.
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Tatiana Oliva Morales. Moscow, the 70s. Book 1. Childhood Memories
Sparkling water machines
Kremlin canteen and black caviar
Fairy tale cake and cream cheese
Winter holidays and “Lesnye Dali”
Toothpaste “Berry”
Dad, “Sarmat” and “Thunderstorm”
Lyuda Koeva and Thunderstorm
An English lesson or “She got up and turned green…”
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Sparkling water machines
I have got a childhood friend, Gella. Sometimes we arrange evenings with our childhood memories. These memories are sometimes very unexpected and moving. For example, yesterday we remembered soda machines with sparkling water. As a rule, they were close to the metro stations.
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Next to the soda vending machines was usually a wheeled cooler tray from which a little plump woman of indefinite years sold ice cream. She always stood behind the ice cream tray dressed in a consistently slightly blurred white coat.
There were several types of ice cream in the tray: ice cream in cups, popsicle on a stick, ice cream for 48 kopecks and, of course, my favorite fruit ice cream. There was also an “ice cream cake”, as my mother called a chocolate ice cream.
